Contact loading mechanism for electrical socket machines



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CONTACT LOADING MECHANISM FOR ELECTRICAL SOCKET MACHINES Original FiledSept. 18, 1958 34 Sheets-Sheet 4 April 27, 1965 P. A. MAXIMOFF ETAL3,180,014

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CONTACT LOADING MECHANISM FOR ELECTRICAL SOCKET MACHINES Original FiledSept. 18, 1958 34 Sheets-Sheet 7 April 1965 P. A. MAXIMOFF ETAL3,180,014

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1. IN AN ASSEMBLING MACHINE, MECHANISM FOR LOADING ELECTRICAL CONTACTELEMENTS IN PROPERLY ORIENTATED RELATION IN APERTURES IN AN INSULATORBODY COMPRISING A STATIONARY FRAME, A LOADING SHAFT DISPOSED IN VERTICALRELATION ON SAID FRAME AND HAVING A PLURALITY OF AXIALLY DISPOSED,CIRCUMFERENTIALLY SPACED LOADING CHANNELS THEREIN EACH WITH ACONFIGURATION GENERALLY CONFORMING IN CROSS-SECTION WITH THE LARGESTCROSS-SECTION OF THE CONTACT ELEMENTS, MEANS FOR SUCCESSIVELY MOVINGINSULATOR BODIES INTO A PREDETERMINED POSITION RELATIVE TO SAID LOADINGSHAFT WITH THE APERTURES ALIGNED WITH THE LOADING CHANNELS IN SAIDSHAFT, MEANS FOR PLACING A CONTACT ELEMENT IN GENERALLY CONFORMINGRELATION IN EACH OF SAID LOADING CHANNELS, MEANS FOR RETAINING SAIDCONTACT ELEMENTS IN SAID CHANNELS, AND PLUNGER MEANS FOR SIMULTANEOUSLYPUSHING THE CONTACT ELEMENTS IN THE LOADING CHANNELS INTO THE ALIGNEDAPERTURES IN THE INSULATOR BODY DISPOSED IN SAID PREDETERMINED POSITION.